Category 6 Hurricane 2024. The category 5 storm was on track to hit the florida coast on wednesday as a major hurricane. The national hurricane center in february said it has no plans to add a category 6 to its hurricane scale, and accuweather chief meteorologist jon porter.
Of the 197 hurricanes classified as category 5 from 1980 to 2021, five fit the description of a hypothetical category 6 hurricane: They found that annual chances of a category 6 forming somewhere on the planet would climb to 2 percent at 1.5 degrees of global warming, 7 percent at 2 degrees of warming and 10 percent at 3.